but there s no doubt that belatedly, the russians have learned to fight better. and nato s weapons aren t reaching ukraine in sufficient quantities yet. few expected this ceasefire to hold in any way. it was. the bbc correspondent james waterhouse has covered the war from its earliest stages. i caught up with him when he had just arrived in the city of dnipro to report on the fighting in southeastern ukraine. there isn t a single ukrainian city which is untouched by russia s latest tactic, really, and we thought its strategy of targeting ukraine s infrastructure would stop as the weather improved.
about how donald trump does in swing states against how ron desantis does in swing states. as everyone has been saying, as we ve been saying, trump gets trounced in the swing states. can question is, can republicans help themselves? that is exactly the question. i mean, you re seeing the rational for the desantis campaign in all of those polls. but, you know, over the last week, we ve seen how the republican party cannot help itself, how it just can t quit donald trump. they can t push back. they re unwilling to push back on jean carroll verdict. they re unwilling to take the steps they need to take to do anything about it. can i just comment on mother s day for a moment? by the way, happy mother s day to everyone. happy mother s day, everyone, belatedly. i hope everyone looks at the mother s day statement that donald trump put out to the nation, and then ask yourself, how can republicans look at that and go, yeah, let s spend the next two years defending this
influx of migrants much as four 100% in some areas. is it turning turning out to be a political football? joining us to discuss senior reporter at the root jessica washington andlis a farah. griffin. i always forget your last name now. married now. congratulations, belatedly. look, this is, obviously, a political issue. we are not going to act like this is all about policy here. your sense of things when you look how complex this dynamic is in the next 48 hours. are people looking at this from a policy perspective frying to find answers or is this entirely a political football at this point? it feels like a political football when you think about republicans. this a winning strategy for them bringing up the democratic administration s shortfalls. i think we are talking a lot about politics and a little bit
wetter weather slides across northern ireland into western scotland. so temperatures probably won t be quite so high, but still better than we ve seen over the past few days. by the time we get to bank holiday monday, this area of high pressure is trying to build in from the atlantic. a little belatedly maybe, but there should be fewer showers around on monday. most of those highlighted there across northern scotland, east anglia in the southeast though one or two could develop elsewhere. but there will be some sunshine around. it s turning drier from the west. the winds will be quite light and temperatures reaching a pleasant 16 or 17 celsius.
won t be quite so high, but still better than we ve seen over the past few days. by the time we get to bank holiday monday, this area of high pressure is trying to build in from the atlantic. a little belatedly maybe, but there should be fewer showers around on monday. most of those highlighted there across northern scotland, east anglia in the southeast though one or two could develop elsewhere. but there will be some sunshine around. it s turning drier from the west. the winds will be quite light and temperatures reaching a pleasant 16 or 17 celsius.